Emer Davis

New Delhi, India

 

Emer Davis was born in Ireland and is currently living in India.  She experienced the lockdown in New Delhi, except for one month during the summer when she was in Ireland, before returning to India for work.  She previously lived in London and Abu Dhabi.  Several of her poems have been published in anthologies, journals and online in Ireland, UK, USA and UAE.  She was runner up in the Poetry Ireland Trocaire poetry competition in 2018.  Her poems can be found on her website Bunnacurrypoet.org.  

Poem written 3rd October 2020 

Taj Mahal

 

The echoes of your silence is lost,

lost among the sort ripples

gleaming from the tiny cracks

which we can no longer see.

 

My body draped across the frosted marble,

shimmering in an amber glow,

I look beyond the lens,

beyond the emptiness of this vast tomb,

and cradle your memory in a snapshot.

 

The echoes of your silence

seeping into my flesh,

drifting into the emptiness,

you left behind.

 

You left behind your sorrow,

and bathed in a new light,

a future beyond this dome.

 

We re-create your sadness,

your solitude and your solace,

as we stare beyond the cracks,

grasping onto the shards of life,

splintered across this vast tomb.

 

The echoes of your silence

traipsing among our pain,

we leave behind a part of you,

untarnished by the sun,

lost in the vastness of this tomb.